Sandi Pedersen

Make your own ice cream

Sandi Pedersen - June 27, 2012

Beat the heat with homemade ice cream the kids can help make. Yummy!

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Kid Culture | Tween Books

Sandi Pedersen - November 3, 2009

MIRACLE WIMP, by Erik P. Kraft, Little, Brown Young readers, paperback $7.99; ages 12 and up. Tom Mayo, otherwise known as Miracle...

For tweens, check out these four great books

Sandi Pedersen - September 28, 2009

Four books not to miss this month.

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These books offer great escapes from routine

Sandi Pedersen - September 10, 2009

We are back in the groove. School, homework, reading assignments, soccer practice, gymnastics, piano lessons, go to bed early, get up early-we've only been in school one month and it feels like summer was a million years ago. And I'm the mom; I'm not even the one going to school.

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Looking for fun? Check out these books

Sandi Pedersen - September 10, 2009

My kids and I were in the car and one of our favorite songs came on the radio, Sheryl Crows "All I Wanna Do." We were smiling at each other and singing very loudly when it hit me: That is what this column is all about. All of these books are fun. Thats it. Fun.

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Shop ’til you warm up. Minneapolis, Minn.

Sandi Pedersen - September 10, 2009

Kati, I say, how about a weekend in Minnesota, just the two of us? Kati, my 14-year-old, just shrugs. Cmon Kati, well stay in a hotel, eat out, itll be fun. No response. I pull out my trump card. We can go to the Mall of America. OK, she says. Lets go.

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Say beautiful 850 times and you’re there, Oahu and Maui, Hawaii

Sandi Pedersen - September 10, 2009

Kylie, I call, we need to start writing our article about Hawaii. Have you been thinking about it? She answers, How many words does it have to be? (Im proud. Shes learning writers lingo.) About 850 words, I say. Thats easy, she says, just type the word beautiful 850 times.

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